The Art of the Padded Proposal

[ksmith]

I find the following interesting on so many levels:

http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/105067

In a small world like high fashion, did Davies really believe that she would really get away with cribbing conversations from the works of others and not be found out? That word wouldn't have gotten back to the fashionistas with whom she'd allegedly spoken?

If it turns out that she did pad that proposal, I hope she hasn't spent too much of that $900,000 advance.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

Has this always happened or is it a sign of deep moral rot? We have a government overrun with pathological liars, a growth industry of fake memoirs, and an infestation of "reality" programming that turns out to be scripted and dramatized.

And the fiction market is, at best, flat.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Well, the article states that Davies left her job at the Times of London over issues with her expenses, so that fish started to stink at the head.

Flexible truth--I think the new term is "truthiness."

I think it's evidence of a need to invent alternate realities because the current one needs a lot of work. Because for some folks, it's boring. For others, it's inconvenient. And the energy invested in believing in these alternate realities leaves that much less that's available to invest in fiction.

Lunchtime seat-of-the-pants philosophizing. Back to work...